Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema (left) speaks to the media as his wife, Jen, looks on during a news conference to announce Bielema's hire Wednesday in Fayetteville.

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NATE ALLEN
nallensports@att.net

From slopping hogs in Illinois, Bret Bielema now coaches Hogs in Arkansas.

The now former Wisconsin Badgers football coach and native of Prophetstown, Ill., was officially introduced at a Wednesday press conference by University of Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long as the Razorbacks head football coach.

"I grew up, ironically, on a pig farm," Bielema said before leading boosters and UA brass in calling the Hogs. "That was my first public Pig-Sooie. From the ages 4 to 18 when I called them my only partners were pigs. There is a little more pressure there." ...